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You know I love cool add-ons for Firefox, and I think I wrote about Speed Dial here several weeks ago.
Well, I liked it a lot, until I used it a lot. It makes rows of thumbnails for you so that you can see sites you visit every day. You don’t have to go hunting down the bookmark, you just click on the screen and voila! You’re there. Saves a lot of time.
But with Speed Dial, the thumbnails didn’t come up a lot of the time. And if they were there when you started out, they’d disappear. Another thing that bugged me is that you couldn’t name the site and let Speed Dial get the thumbnail for you also It was one or the other. So, when the thumbnail disappeared, you were SOL. You’d have to rest your cursor on the square to see the URL.
Not so with Fast Dial. It totally rocks. Not only does it hold your thumbnails, but it allows you to name them as well as allow Fast Dial to get your thumbnails. So, if for some reason, one disappears, you can still see the name of the site. But, what’s really cool is that they don’t disappear! At least none of them have gone AWOL all week. I’m thrilled.
You can get Fast Dial and try it out for yourself here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5721
Love it, love it, love it.
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July 12th, 2008 at 1:57 am
How many thumbnails does Fast Dial allow? I use Opera which has a speed dial, but only up to nine sites are allowed.
July 12th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
You can have 100, if you want, and you can add pages. So, if you only want 9, you can have page 2 with 9 more, etc.
Very, very cool. Way more powerful than Opera, but you can’t use Fast Dial with Opera. You need Firefox!
Which totally rules.
–Pat
July 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
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jim